Dr. Clemens Burda is the director of the Center for Chemical Dynamics and Nanomaterials Research in the Chemistry Department, Case Western Reserve University. Since 2001 he is appointed as a faculty in Physical Chemistry specializing on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His interests revolve around optically active or activatable nanomaterials for energy conversion, environmental studies, and health applications. This applies in areas such as photovoltaics, photocatalysis, photobiology andbiomedicine, including bioimaging, therapy and tissue targeting for drug delivery. Prof. Burda received his chemistry education in Switzerland and graduated as a doctor of philosophy and science with honors in 1997 from the University of Basel. Dr. Burda is a reviewer for top-ranked nanoscience and chemistry journals, an editorial member for the International Journal of Nanotechnology, and an organizer of the Nanomaterials Conference at the 50th annual SPIE meeting in 2005. He speaks regularly at international conferences. He is also the co-founder of Cleveland Nanocrystal Inc.

Dr. Burda’s work is based on these two simple ideas:

The important issues for our future are mainly Energy, Environment, and Health.

The important solutions to these challenges will come from using mainly Sun Light as abundant and decentralized energy source.